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2017 Dirty Kanza Preamble
Note: This post is about my second Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 3, 2017. It’s broken into seven parts: Part I – Prep / Training Part II – Preamble Part III – Starting Line Part IV – Checkpoint...
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2017 Dirty Kanza Starting Line
Note: This post is about my second Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 3, 2017. It’s broken into seven parts: Part I – Prep / Training Part II – Preamble Part III – Starting Line Part IV – Checkpoint...
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2017 Dirty Kanza Checkpoint One
Note: This post is about my second Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 3, 2017. It’s broken into seven parts: Part I – Prep / Training Part II – Preamble Part III – Starting Line Part IV – Checkpoint...
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2017 Dirty Kanza Checkpoint Two
Note: This post is about my second Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 3, 2017. It’s broken into seven parts: Part I – Prep / Training Part II – Preamble Part III – Starting Line Part IV – Checkpoint...
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2017 Dirty Kanza Checkpoint Three
Note: This post is about my second Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 3, 2017. It’s broken into seven parts: Part I – Prep / Training Part II – Preamble Part III – Starting Line Part IV – Checkpoint...
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2017 Dirty Kanza Finish Line
Note: This post is about my second Dirty Kanza 200 experience on June 3, 2017. It’s broken into seven parts: Part I – Prep / Training Part II – Preamble Part III – Starting Line Part IV – Checkpoint...
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Why I love LDAPCon
This post is loosely based on a lightning talk last week in Brussels. We had a few minutes to fill and I felt compelled to spill my guts, despite having nothing prepared. For those that have never...
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Why I Ride
Say what you will about cycling, but it affords time for thoughtful contemplation. Why am I doing this? There are plenty of reasons not, starting with it being hard compared to other forms of...
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Advice for Graduating Coders
Attached slidedeck for a talk today at the Arkansas Coding Academy: AdviceForGraduatingStudents
View ArticleNext Generation Directory-based User Management for Cloud Infrastructure
At SCaLE16X conference this week in Pasadena for a conversation about the Next Generation Directory-based User Management for Cloud Infrastructure. Slides are here
View ArticleIntroducing a pythonic RBAC API
py-fortress is a Python API implementing Role-Based Access Control level 0 – Core. It’s still pretty new so there’s going to be some rough edges that will need to be smoothed out in the coming weeks....
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Distal Biceps Disruption
Last week while helping my wife load a household appliance we were donating into her aunt’s pickup was the sickening sound of my right bicep detaching itself from the elbow distal tendon. The pain was...
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Using the py-fortress Command Line Interpreter
The Command Line Interpreter (CLI) drives the admin and review APIs, allowing ad-hoc RBAC setup and interrogation. More info in the README. This document also resides here: README-CLI. Prerequisites...
View ArticleTesting the py-fortress RBAC0 System
The Command Line Interpreter (CLI) may be used to drive the RBAC System APIs, to test, verify and understand a particular RBAC policy. This document also resides here: README-CLI-AUTH Prerequisites...
View ArticleProgramming in Python using the py-fortress RBAC APIs
py-fortress implements standards-based RBAC in Python. There have been numerous postings lately here about it. Prerequisites Very soon we’ll have a release of py-fortress that works with just the file...
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New Sheriff in Town
And it don’t need no stinking badges. Yeah, I’m mixing clichés, happens sometimes when coding long hours in a stretch. What I’m talking about is a new access management system, released to PyPI...
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DirtyKanza Training on Zwift?
Due to an injury on March 14th, discussed here, the last couple months of my Dirty Kanza training was done on a smart trainer, using the Zwift virtual training app. My Setup includes a CycleOps Magnus...
View ArticleHow I Built an Access Management System Using Apache Directory Fortress
Watching application teams struggle implementing access control systems brings me to a talk I gave at ApacheCon a couple of years ago. Here’s the audio: feathercast.apache.org And the slides:...
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Towards an Attribute-Based Role-Based Access Control System
We’ve all heard the complaint, RBAC doesn’t work. It leads to Role Explosion, defined as an inordinate number of roles in a production environment. Nobody knows who must be assigned to what because...
View ArticleRbac to Abac Sample
Created a new project corresponding with earlier blog post, rbac with abac… https://github.com/shawnmckinney/rbac-abac-sample
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